Thursday, September 29, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 2, 1912
Lake Forest Fixes Rate Five Times Higher as That Set by St. Louis. Town Gives This Reason For Generous Inducement to Successful Swatters. Â Â Â Â Flies were quoted Friday on the Lake Forest board at 50 cents a pint. Â Â Â Â It is merely a question of supply and demand with Lake Forest. That city claims the […]
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 6, 1912
    Fishermen in the Caribbean sea recently found in the stomach of a shark which they had killed a good sized bottle in which was a half-decipherable letter from a shipwrecked sailor. Many such relics have been found. In one case a lady’s bracelet was found in a state of perfect preservation, together with a […]
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, November 24, 1915
Joe McCrone Says He Had to Seize Hold of Goose’s Neck to Make it Let Go. Â Â Â Â Recently the Sun printed an item which many considered a mere joke, to the effect that when crossing a lot on the West side Joe McCrone of the People’s market had been “bitten by a big goose.” Â Â Â Â […]
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 23, 1904
Takes a Ten-Mile Dash Behind a Runaway Horse. Â Â Â Â Little Irving Potter, aged 13 months, survived a perilous ride of ten miles hehind a frightened horse, which turned the buggy in a twenty-foot ravine, completely covering the child with wreckage. Mr. Potter and his wife drove to Keller station and when, assisting his wife to […]
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 30, 1905
Long Trains of Palace Stock Cars Rushing from South to North. Â Â Â Â Not even the world’s fair nor convention, excursion trains take precedence over the long strings of palace stock cars rushing from south to north this month, that the largest shipment of Texas cattle in the history of the West may be deposited on […]
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 27, 1905
    Mrs. Benjamin J. Scholermann, wife of a New York jeweler, had a desperate fight with a setter dog at her residence in Greenwich, Conn. She was almost exhausted, when another dog, a pet bulldog came to her aid, and, jumping on the setter, turned his attention.
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 9, 1894
    The novel sight of an elephant suffering with a severe attack of the grip was seen at the winter quarters of a circus in Rockford. Queen Jumbo, the largest elephant now in captivity, and valued at $12,000, was taken sick and suffered most intense agony. Half a dozen times the beast was overcome with […]
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, May 1, 1914
    Joe Atkinson of Roundout Vicinity Has Frightful Experience With Animal Which Previously Had Always Been Gentle-Two Farm Hands Rush To Aid Of Employer But The Bull Keeps On Goring And Pawing Him About The Yard-Collie Rushes To Rescue, And, With Bites And Barks, Detracts Bull’s Attention While Workmen Rescue Him.     With two hired […]
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, June 17, 1915
Local People Are Acting on the Suggestion of City Physician Dr. Foley. Many Swatters Are Used. Scores of People Are Getting After the Places Where the Flies Are Breeding. Â Â Â Â This is “Fly Swatting” week and from all accounts the pests are suffering heavy losses at the hands of Waukegan people. Â Â Â Â Before leaving today […]
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 4, 1905
F. N. Jenkins of Lincoln, Neb., bathed his dogs in gasoline in the cellar of his house to kill fleas. Later he approached them with a lantern and an explosion followed which wrecked the house. Two may die.
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